War and the media : reportage and propaganda / edited by Mark Connelly and David Welch.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Propaganda has been a major tool of war from the earliest times and has never been more vital, and had no greater effect, than in the 20th century - a time of continuous global conflict and two world wars. This title includes contributions from leading academics, media professionals and from the armed services. All aspects are covered: the Press; radio and television, state information services; "virtual war" and psychological operations. The 20th century has seen major shifts in the relationship between war and propaganda, fuelled by the huge technological advances, making propaganda and censorship increasingly potent weapons. The text covers conflict from the Boer War, British and German propaganda in World War I and World War II, the Cold War, the Gulf War and Kosovo. An important aspect - not generally realized except among media professionals - is the control of propaganda by the Ministry of Defence which has access to the largest single television audience in the world through "BBC World". The role of propaganda in the "war against terror" is also analysed in detail.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction: War and the Media in the Twentieth Century: An Historical Perspective
• Sieges of the Boer War and the British Press
• British Propaganda and the Advance on the Hindenburg Line
• German Film Propaganda and World War I
• "The Mediator": Images of Radio in the Wartime feature Films of Britain and Germany in World War II
• "Temperamentally Unwarlike": the Image of Italy in the Allies' War Propaganda, 1943-45
• Humphrey Jennings and the Cinematic Eye of the Journalist
• War Report--BBC, 1944-5 and the Professionalization of War Reporting in the British News Media
• British Television, Propaganda and the Cold War: Images of the Enemy in the 1950s
• "The Man Who Invented Truth": Edward R. Murrow as Director of the United States Information Agency in the Kennedy Years
• American Media Coverage of the Vietnam War
• Representing War: Media Reporting and the 1982 South Atlantic Conflict
• Media-State Relations in the Post-Cold War Era: from the Kurdish Crisis to Kosovo
• "Virtual War: New Media and New War"
• US Psychological Operations in the 21st Century
• Learning the Lesson of the 20th Century: the Evolution in British Military Attitude to the Media, on Operation and in War
• Information in Conflict and Emergencies: Who Really Commands the High Ground?

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Mark Connelly is a Reuters Lecturer in Media and Propaganda History, and David Welch is Professor of Modern History, both at University of Kent in Canterbury.